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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORITZ ULRICH, OF ELBERFELD, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE EARBEN- FABRIKEN,VORMALS FR. BAYER 132 (30., OF SAME PLACE.

AZ 0 D Y E SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,294,dated December 17, 1889. Application filed September 11, 1889. SerialNo. 323,606. (Specimena) To all whom, it may concern;-

Be it known that LMORITZ ULRICH, doctor of philosophy, residing atElberfeld, in the Empire of Germany, assignor to the FARBEN- FABRIKEN,voRMALs FR. BAYER 85 Co, at Elberfeld, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Dye- Stuffs or Coloring-Matters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the production of new blue azo color for dyeingunmordanted cotton, wool, and silk by the action of tetrazodiphenolalkylether upon the dioxynaphthaline monosulpho-acid gained by melting thesocalled alpha-naphthol alpha-disulphoacid S described in the Germanpatent, N 0. 40,571, of the Schollkopf Aniline and Chemical Company, inBulfalo, with oaustic alkali.

In carrying out my process practically I proceed as follows: Twentykilos diamidodi phenol ether (dianisidine) are dissolved in threehundred liters water and forty (40) kilos muriatic acid of the specificgravity of l.l61. To this solution, cooled by ice, eleven (11) kilossodium nitrite dissolved in water are gradually added. The thus-obtainedtetrazo-diphenol ether is then allowed to run slowly into an alkalinesolution of forty (40) kilos of the dioxynaphthaline monosulpho-acidproduced by melting the so-called alpha-naphthol alpha-disulpho-acid Swith caustic alkali. A deep-blue precipitate is immediately formed. Thisis filtered and dried.

My new product thus obtained forms a black amorphous powder dissolvingeasily in cold water, giving a blue solution which turns red violet byadding alkali.

By dissolving in concentrated sulphuric acid a deep greenish-bluesolution is formed,

which gives, after the addition of water, a blue precipitate.

My new dye-stuff dyes cotton not mordanted in a boiling soap bath aclear greenish blue, greener than the product produced by combiningtetrazo-diphenol ether with the isomeric dioxynaphthalinemonosulpho-acid of the beta-naphthol beta monosulpho acid, (G salt,) anddescribed and claimed by me in a separate specification. It has thefollowing chemical composition and formula:

(CxHy) /(0 l ()nHaN=NC1oH4- (SOzONaJd) CtHs-N=NC\uH4-(SO2ONa)' 0(CxHy)\(OHm- \Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is The coloring-m atter herein described, which is produced bythe action of tetrazo-diphenol etherupon the dioxynaphthalinemonosulphoacid obtained by melting the so-called alphanaphtliolalpha-disulphoacid S with caustic alkali, and which forms a blackamorphous powder giving a bluesolution when dissolved in water, turningred violet by adding caustic alkali; in concentrated sulphuric acid itdissolves with deep greenish-blue color, and a blue precipitate of thedye-stuff acid is formed by adding water; unmordanted cotton is dyed byit in an alkaline soap bath a clear greenish blue fast to soap andmineral acid.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

- MORITZ ULRICH. 'itnesses:

CARL DUISBERG, KARL KREKELER.

